8.30.2011

>>ILLUSTRATOR - LUCILE PRACHE

Lucile Prache is a French illustrator who lives (sigh) in Paris, France where her studio is near the "Opera Garnier". She has been drawing for a very long time and paints with a lot of different mediums but favors drawing with a single pencil or watercolor.

She has an amazing talent...a gift I would have loved to have, to draw as beautifully and exquisitely as she does. To see more of her beautiful work, visit her website, lucileprache.com and to purchase some of her beautiful food artwork, go to Lucile's Kitchen - Etsy.








8.29.2011

>>MUNICH FABRIC START - A/W 2012-13


The MunichFabricStart is an international fabric trade fair that holds two fair trades a year. There are over 800 exhibitors from 36 different countries. A wide range of textiles, accessories and trims will be at this exhibition. The fair is scheduled to be held for 3 days from September 6-8 and to order your admission online, go here.... munichfabricstart.com/visitor ticket.


Here is MunichFabricStart's Autumn/Winter 2012-13 trends for the season:

DETAILORING - THE LOVE OF CRAFTSMANSHIP AND AN EYE FOR DETAIL... below are just a few samples of some of their trends and to view more, go here.  You can also order their very reasonable trend catalog and color card online, go here.






8.27.2011

>>DESIGN CONTEST - FABRICLY





DESIGN FOR FABRICLY

Fabricly is constantly looking for awesome designers to work with. As a designer we let you focus being creative and creating great products. Fabricly takes care of sourcing, sampling, photography, production, fulfillment (and many other things). Designers then get a cut of the sales. Together, we will promote and market your brand both online and offline. In short, Fabricly takes the pain and financial risk out of growing a fashion label and bringing great products to the masses.


HOW CAN I DESIGN FOR FABRICLY?

It's easy! To submit your designs for our consideration, email ideas/sketches/inspirations/photographs to designers@fabricly.com


DESIGN CONTEST IS ONGOING....



FEATURED DESIGNER FOR FABRICLY COLLECTION 


AY NOT DEAD

ADDED TO FABRICLY APRIL 2011
Anything that is inspired by rock & roll and is totally affordable is A-OK with me. Oh and did I mention that this line is also Argentinean and is designed by a totally adorable trio of brothers? And that the boys are inspired not only by Coco Chanel (my fave) but also by artists like Xul Solar? Yup. It’s a real thing. And it’s magical. To shop for other collections go here.....Fabricly.com




8.26.2011

>>STYLE BOOK - COLOR BLOCKING



  • Inspirations from Marie Claire - publication Aug 2011 
  • Photos by Tesh
  • Model Noreen Carmody - Switzerland 
  • Notebook layout by Fashion Vignette

8.25.2011

>>FASHION TRENDS STYLING - A/W 2012-13

Fashion Trends Styling, is the ultimate A/W 2012-13 forecast magazine in color, materials and illustrations. This publication also includes textile photos, catwalk images, graphics and trims. The color palettes are also referenced with Pantone TCX numbers for your use.

Below are samples from their publication which you'll see are full of great ideas for women's, I love the looks . To order a copy go here....Urban View - Fashion Trends Styling #93 - AW 2012-13








8.23.2011

>>DESIGN CONTEST - THREADLESS TEES

Here are three.....YES THREE t-shirt design competitions by Threadless tees.... and an opportunity to be in their paid Artist Program.

THE FIRST ONE IS  - LOVE YOUR CITY




The t-shirt design of your favorite city to celebrate everything you love about it and that makes everyone want to go there. If you have more than one favorite city you can submit a design for each one.

There will be 10 selected designs for a cash prize of $2,000 (US Dollars) each. To learn more about this competition, go here.... Threadless - Loves Your City.


Registration and design submission deadlines: August 26, 2011






THE SECOND COMPETITION - DESIGN A TEE 

This is a weekly competition where the Threadless community will review the design submissions and decide which designs should become the next Threadless tees. You'll need to come up with the best original idea and that needs to be amazing enough for print.  If your idea is selected for print, you'll receive $2,000 (US Dollars) plus additional cash prizes, to learn more about this competition and to submit your designs, go here.... Threadless - Tees.



THE THIRD COMPETITION - SLOGAN TEE




This is also a weekly competition to submit your slogan tee designs. If your idea is selected for print, you'll receive $500 (US Dollars). To learn more about submitting your slogan submissions, go here...Threadless - Slogan Tees.


ARTIST PROGRAM


Also be sure to check out their ARTIST PROGRAM where Threadless works with artists around the world to produce amazing tee shirt designs. To learn more how to submit a tee shirt design for a chance at getting paid $25,000 (US dollars), go here.... Threadless - Artist Program

8.22.2011

>>VOGUEPEDIA



If you haven't already heard, Vogue launched their "Encyclopedia of Fashion", VOGUEPEDIA. It is a great everything you need to know fashion bible.... The fashion geniuses at Vogue decided to create an online archive of fashion covering the magazine's almost 120 year history. To find out everything there is to know about the designers, models, actors, stylists that have made up the Vogue pages, check out this great resource,  www.vogue.com/voguepedia

Here are a few images from their site....a favorite designer that I learned a few more tidbits about that I didn't know.





Dries Van Noten

Dries Van Noten2.jpgNorman Jean Roy for Vogue, May 2007.
“I don’t want to be a big player,”[1] Dries Van Noten insisted in 2006. Yet he had, in fact, already become one. Rising to prominence in the 1980s, he all but created the mold for the commercially successful independent designer.

Van Noten was one of the Antwerp Six who traveled to London and made a splash in the mid-1980s. In 1985 he established his own label and opened his first boutique in the Belgian fashion capital, and in 1993 he brought his debut women’s collection to Paris. “I was doing something different than other designers,” he explained in 2000. “I showed delicate, fine dresses with rose prints and a rather Indian influence.”[2]
Fabric is usually Van Noten’s starting point, along with a certain trademark exoticism—anything “that reroutes us from the ordinary,”[3] to use his words. “I’m known for color and prints and embroideries,” he told Vogue in 2007. “Normally the more clashing it is, the more that I like it!”[4]
The humble yet resourceful Belgian’s career followed a steadily onward-and-upward trajectory before he paused for breath around 2000...more
  • First in Vogue1993November
  • Born1958Antwerp, Belgium
  • LabelsDries Van Noten
  • Vogue Covers1

History
  1. 1958
    Dries Van Noten born in Antwerp, Belgium. His father will run upscale fashion boutiques. “My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional,”[7] he later tells the International Herald Tribune. Dries will attend a Jesuit school, and the Van Noten kids will go to Mass identically dressed.
  2. 1970
    The Van Noten family moves to the suburbs.
  3. 1973
    Dries works in his father’s shop and attends fashion shows with him.
  4. 1976
    Begins fashion design studies at Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
  5. 1985
    Starts his own line with business partner Christine Mathys. Shortly after, opens his first boutique in an Antwerp shopping arcade. “To survive financially, I was designing six commercial collections by day and my own label by night,”[8] he later tellsVogue.
  6. 1986
    Shows his menswear collection in London alongside the rest of the Antwerp Six. Barneys New York buys his menswear line to sell to women, requesting that he add some skirts.
  7. 1987
    Patrick Vangheluwe, his life partner, joins the company.
  8. 1989
    Van Noten moves his boutique into Het Modepaleis, an 1881 redbrick atelier that once housed the shop of his tailor grandfather’s rival.
  9. 1991
    Stages his first menswear show in Paris. An Vandevorst becomes his first assistant. (She will work with him for six years and then launch A. F. Vandevorst with her mentor’s moral and financial support.)
  10. 1997
    Van Noten starts a childrenswear line; it will be short-lived.
  11. 2000
    Moves his operations into a six-story converted shipping warehouse.
  12. 2003
    Honored at the Fashion Group International’s 20th anniversary Night of Stars gala; Van Noten wears a waistcoat from the late-1800s with a tuxedo of his own design.
  13. 2004
    To celebrate 20 years in business and his 50th show, publishesDries Van Noten 01-50.
  14. 2007
    Opens his first Paris boutique on the Left Bank, in a former bookstore on the Quai Malaquais. Among the many bibelots in the homey shop is a bridge table that once belonged to bon vivant Charles de Beistegui.
  15. 2008
    January: Kate Hudson wears Dries Van Noten for the cover ofVogue. June: He receives the CFDA International Award.
  16. 2009
    March: Awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. May: Accepts the Artistry of Fashion Award from the Couture Council of the Museum at F.I.T.
  17. 2010
    May: Is invited to preside over the 25th edition of the Festival International de Mode et de Photographie of Hyères, France.
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Selected Appearances
  • "What Paris Fall 2010 Taught Us Today: Dries Van Noten"
    "What Paris Fall 2010 Taught Us Today: Dries Van Noten"March 4, 2010
  • "Paris Spring 2010: The Definitive Look at Dries Van Noten"
    "Paris Spring 2010: The Definitive Look at Dries Van Noten"October 5, 2009
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